The Wacky World of Chris Knight

Really, I feel sorry for him. Maybe it is stress, maybe it is Alzheimer’s, maybe it is that he would rather lose an argument with himself than lose an election… I feel sorry for anyone who can’t remember their own train of thought. I fear getting old and senile, and it is painful to watch someone put themselves in the spotlight while their own inner light is noticeably dimming.

Think Progress » McCain Caves To Right Wing On Gay Adoption, Says Orphans Shouldn’t Have Gay Parents

In the interview, McCain repeatedly said that he is “for the values and principles that two parent families represent.” He also said preserving traditional families is “not the reason why I’m running for president of the United States.” Just seconds later, however, he reversed course and bluntly stated, “I’m running for president of the United States because I want to help with family values.”

Media Matters - Stein on Obama’s convention speech: “Seventy-five-thousand people at an outdoor sports palace, well, that’s something the Fuehrer would have done”.

Summary: On Glenn Beck, Ben Stein, while discussing Sen. Barack Obama's plan to deliver his speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination at Denver's Invesco Field, stated that he did not "like the idea of Senator Obama giving his acceptance speech in front of 75,000 wildly cheering people." Stein further stated: "Seventy-five-thousand people at an outdoor sports palace, well, that's something the Fuehrer would have done."

If only the media ran like usenet of old… Because at this point, having made the inevitable Nazi reference, everyone would just add Ben Stein to their ignore file and that would be the last we would hear of his drivel. (I’m not going to call the ignore file by its technical name, because ignorant people might think it is a threat of some sort.)

-Chris

They really, really want to believe.

Also for sale were laser pointers and flashlights, but Mutual UFO Network spokesman Alejandro Rojas said it may not be a good idea to shine a flashlight directly at a flying saucer. That's what the Maine fishermen did in 1976, he said, and it made the aliens mad enough that they abducted the fishermen, who haven't been heard from since.

"We don't recommend that you use the flashlight to initiate alien contact," Rojas said. "You could be in trouble."

If the fishermen were abducted, and never heard from again, how can anyone state for a fact that they were abducted because they shined a flashlight at a UFO? Making these kinds of statements, demonstrating seriously flawed logic, is why the ‘believers’ come off as kooks.

I am not saying that I don’t believe in life on other planets, but I don’t prop up my beliefs with fabricated facts.

-Chris